Snell-fastener.



Patented Dec. 17, 1912.

IIWEIITUR WITNE88E8 8 Y W n h M K m H ,r. r m B citizen of the United States nmrnn srkrns PATENT orrion.

mi'r'rm. 'n. KLEBSY, or New YORK, N. I.

Application filed inch 1, 1912. Serial No. 680,882.

To all whom it may concern: I r Be it known that I,' PETER .KLERSY, a and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brookl n, in thecounty of Kin s and State, of ew York, .have invented a new and Improved SnellFastener, of which the followm is a full, clear, and exact description.

he invention relates to fishing tackle, and its object is to provide a new and improved fastener for fastening'snells and the like to the fishing line at any desired point in avery simple manner and without requiring knotting of theline, atthe same time extending the snell in-a practically right-angled position relative to the fishing line to prevent entangling of the snell with the line, and, in case a number of snells are used on the same line, the fasteners act as a spreader to extend the snells in different directions from the line and in a different plane to allow the use of a. large number ofsnells, if desired, and to avoid entangling of such snellsone with the other or Withthe fishing line.

For the purpose mentioned, the fastener is provided with spaced line etaining hooks for engagement wlth the lineia nd a snell 'retaining hook for engagement by the loop of the snell and arranged intermediate the said line-retaining hooks and extending in a di-' rection opposite to the one of .the line-retaining hooks.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in

which simil 1' ch cters of efere c'e indi-- a am r n y and F are bent inward at the middle toward cate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is, a side elevation of two fasteners as applied to connect two snells to a fishing line Fig; 2 is a perspective view of a fastener; and Fig. .3 is an enlarged edge view of thesameas ap lied.

The fastener is pre erably made'from a piece of-sheet metalshaped to.form a flat ody A, provided at one side with an eye B for the passage of the loop 0 of the snell C to be-supported from the fishing line D.

I .On the body A directly to one side of the eye B is arranged a hook E opening outwardly and adapted to be engaged by the loop C ofthe snell. G, as plainly indicated in the drawin s. Line-retaining hooks F, F form part 0 the body A. below and above the snell-retaining hook E for engagement with the line D, the said line-retalnlng hooks and F being pen inwardly, that is, toward the eye B. The line-retaining hooks-F and F overlie the body A at the bottom and top portions A ,.A of the said body A.

' Now inusing the fastener for fastening the snell Cto the line D at any to the front and under the hoo F in a downward direction; in a like manner the-upper portion'of the line is passed to the back of the top portion A, then-to the front and into the hook F in an upward direction, so that D and at the same time the snell C is securely fastened' to the fastener through the eye B and engagin the hook E, being locked in this pos1tion y a .part of plainly indicated in Fig. 1. It will be seen that by the arrangement described the line F and straig t' upward from the hook F so that the upper and lower portions of the other, and consequently the body A of the fastener extends at a right an" 1e fromthe line and with it the loop end 0 the snell G. In ractice, the line-retaining hooks F the body A to leave a distance between the body and the'corresponding hook somewhat less than the thickness of the fishing line 1), and consequently the line when drawn into a hookF or F I dentally out of the said hook. By passing then to the back of'the bottom and top held against up or down movement of the line D.

.tener from sheet metal the hooks E, F, and F can .be readily struck up from the sheet metal, and the eye B can be readily formed by punching a hole in the sheet metal. Howportion of the line around the back (if the bottom portion A and then asses the line A by passing the "line D passing over the-loop C, as

line are in vertical alinement with each is not liable to pass adci-i desired point in the lengyh of the line, the operator passes,

the fastener A is firmly attached to the line i extends straight downward from the hookthe line over the front of the loop C and P tions A and A? and finally into the line'- retaining hooks F and F the fastener is It is understood-that inmaking the fas- 1 l ever, the fastener may be made of wire and e hence I do not limit myself to the particular constr ction shown and described. It will also h t noted that by mounting the fas-- tener on the fish line in the manner described the fastener cannot turn on the line and hence a number of fasteners with snells attached thereto can be placed on the line one above the other and extending in different directions. the fasteners acting as Spreaders for the snells to prevent the same from becoming entangled one with the other or with the fish line.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Let-' ters Patent:

1. A fastener for fastening snells to fish lines made of a single piece of metal and provided with open spaced line-retaining hooks for engagement with the fish line, an eye for the passage of the loop of the snell, and an open snell-retaining hook to one side of the sai eye and intermediate the said line-reta1ning hooks.

2. A fastener for fastening snells to fish lines, comprising a flat body of sheet metal, an eye on the said body for the passage of the snell loop, an open snell-retaining hook on thesaid body to one side of the said eye and adapted to be engaged by the snell loop, and open line-retaining books on the said body for engagement by the line.

8. A fastener for fastening snells to fish lines made of a single piece of metal provided at one side with an eye and on the other side with three hooks located one above the other and of which the middle hook is a snell-retaining hook adapted to receive the loop of the snell passed through the said eye, and the upper and lower. hooks are lineret-aining hooks opening inwardly for engagement by the fish line to permit of passing a portion of the fish line over the snell loop intermediate the eye and the snell-retaining hook.

4. A fastener for fastening snells. .to fish lines, made of a single piece of metal provided with an eye for the passage of the snell loop, a snell-retaining hook adapted to be engaged by the snell loop and arranged to one side of the said eye, and lineretaining hooks, one arranged above the said snell-retaining hook and one located below the same, the said line-retaining hooks being open inward toward the eye and the snellretaining hook being open in an outward direction.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two. subscribing witnesses.

. PETER H. KLERSY.

Witnesses:

THEO. G. Hos'rnn, PHILIP D. ROLLHAUS. 

